D2.1 Required information/knowledge provision services specification

The deliverable D2.1 focuses on identification and analysis of the information/knowledge
related to complex products in GloNet, while aiming at the specification of a set of generic
services for their provision to the stakeholders. Towards achieving this goal, a systematic
process is defined and followed. In this process, we carefully aim at generalization, and not
only focusing on a specific product in GloNet. Therefore, the systematic process starts with
targeted analysis of the three planned complex products of GloNet, namely: (i) the PV solar
plants, (ii) the intelligent buildings, and (iii) the future incubators.
As a first step of the approach, the main entities common among these three products are
discovered and extracted. These represent the elements, about which their information
and/or knowledge needs to be stored and shared among different users in this environment,
constituting the virtual Bag Of Information/Knowledge Assets (BOIKA) for each of the
complex products. As a second step, the main groups of information users (including both
stakeholders and software systems) that are common to different GloNet products are
addressed. In the third step, a cross section between entities from the first step and users
from the second step is established, and their specific access requirements and/or
constraints are identified, aiming to verify their relevance as well as their
comprehensiveness. In the fourth step, the results generated by the first step are analyzed
and classified by their nature (/form) into the main categories of information/knowledge in
the environment. Our main resulted categories include: atomic data, documents, and
processes. The fifth step primarily analyzes and classifies the results which are generated
in the second step, by their nature (/kind), into the main categories of users in the
environment. Our main resulted categories include: Human user and software systems. In
the sixth step it is discussed that in GloNet, access to information/knowledge from the
virtual BOIKA repository, by software systems require them to be provided as web services.
Furthermore it is discussed that access to information/knowledge by human users in GloNet
requires them to be provided through user-friendly GUIs, where in turn, similar to the above,
the software system of the GUI needs to access information/knowledge of the BOIKA, and
thus also requires access through web services. Therefore, in the seventh and final step of
the systematic approach, high level generic specification of the required web services for
accessing through the cloud to the - atomic data, documents, and processes, related to
GloNet products are provided. In the next step of the GloNet project, the specification of
services which are provided in D2.1, serves as the base for their development, as will be
addressed in D2.2